Steve, Did you ever see Ed Bradley's interview of Dylan. The latter is about three years older than I am. I was writing significant code until a few years ago and I can state theorems and definitions that I learned 50+ years ago. I might even be able to prove some of the theorems but...
https://youtu.be/m_wAZ02JUtM --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 11:43 AM Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Jon- > > I would find it fascinating (if possibly/assuredly misleading) for someone > well-schooled in Go Strategy/Tactics and history to establish a running > commentary on the specific moves afoot in our (national/global) political > (socioeconomic) go-board. > > My last foray into Go beyond trying to learn to play casually 10 years ago > was during the 1983 CA conference in Los Alamos when there was a lot of > discussion of using CA to construct Chess/Checkers/Go playing programs. > > I don't remember (nor can find) any papers directly referencing the > subject at that time, and when I tried to follow up on the Go aspect > (in1983), I got sidetracked into Gosper's proto-Hashlife memoization CA > conception... which promised to support "seeding" such game-players with > middle-and end-game "gambits". I don't even know if that is the right > term and bashing through GoogleSearches only leads me further astray down a > multiscale foam of white-rabbit warrens. > > Some of the more interesting vestibules in the maze of rabbit-warrens: > > - Gambit Project: software tools for game theory > <http://www.gambit-project.org/> > - Hashlife, memoization and entropy > <https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/bib/ss/nonstd/index.htm> > - AlphaGo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y> > - Go as Cellular Automata - xah lee > <http://xahlee.info/cmaci/ca/go_cellular_automata.html> > - Hexaganol Go - xah lee > <http://xahlee.info/math/go_board_variations.html> > - ... > > I am left wondering if some of the recent FriAM maunderings are not > relevant. First level Go strategy involves the tension between > "connection and separation" and literal vs virtual or potential versions of > both which rhymes slantly (I hear?) with the "cohesion/coupling" > discussion, as well as the "epiphenomenon" discussion and the more > background/constant consideration of "emergence". > > I'm way over my TL;DR limit as usual, but I will tag on that my own > throwdown in CA is a (never realized) foray into an (k-1)^2 decomposition > of space (vs k-d/quad-oct-tree partitioning).. the key to the concept is > to maximize redundancy and coverage of pattern space vs space-efficient > decomposition. I believe it has a play in the generalization of Guerin's > dual-field stuff, especially in the context of the patch-turtle duality of > Netlogo. But I'm too busy wandering through the self-similar foamy > white-rabbit warrens to do more than make short stepwise motion in that > direction every few years. Which triggers another diversion into Glen's > "diachronic" vs "episodic"... trying to understand if there is a > yet-more-general model of which this distinction is a (useful but) > degenerate form, explaining my (and other's) propensity for > rabbit-hole-diving, and (possibly) the long-term or large-scale utility of > same? > > mumble/ramble > > - Steve > On 8/19/20 11:07 PM, jon zingale wrote: > > The current administration enjoys making *big moves* both in rhetoric > and action, all establishment without fortification. The 20th-century > weiqi master, Go Seigen, is known for a remarkable strategy that may > find an analog here. Go Seigen would often cede the biggest moves to his > opponent while playing in such a way as to introduce *imperfections of > shape* in the other's unsettled groups. Slowly, he would build thickness > around the board with which to harass, overwhelm, and ultimately defeat > his opponent. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe <http://bit.ly/virtualfriamun/subscribe> > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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